“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I could go on for quite a while, mentioning things that you could do. They all would add to your work load, though none of them alone would take much time. You have available, through your television set I believe, data having to do with outside temperature, wind velocity and so forth. For your own records you could note these before a session, and look for correlations.

(Elmira is on a cable TV system, and one channel presents a 24-hour weather report. Constantly, one after another, dials show time, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, wind direction and wind velocity.)

It will do no harm to note them down before you retire. I believe that you will note some rather significant correlations, if you find the time to carry any of these investigations through with any regularity. And the regularity will be very important.

These will only indicate correlations however, and not basic conditions. They will be correlations between basic conditions, and there is quite a difference here. There is so much that can be done, and I know that you have little time to do them. You see, there are also other circumstances which could be noted, to your advantage, such as the phases of the moon, and others which would be more difficult to ascertain.

The physical circumstances which you may discover should never be interpreted as conditions in themselves, under which we operate with varying degrees of efficiency, again, but merely as interconnecting correlations between two sets of intangibles. I will make this clearer at a later time.

I will see if you can discover these for yourselves, but if not I shall point them out for you when the time comes. I do not believe that it is possible for you to carry your dream experiments far enough to discover certain other factors that do exist between various layers of the subconscious, and falling temperature rates in the physical organism. Therefore I will mention the point here.

It would be necessary to take your temperature many times during the evening, and to correlate the findings with the various levels of the subconscious as they displayed themselves through their characteristic activities within the dream series. Such an experiment would be extremely difficult.

(It was now time for the 21st Dr. Instream test. As usual Jane spoke in a quiet voice, sitting with her hands raised to her closed eyes. Her pace was not very slow, however, although she took a few long pauses. Resume at 10:03.)

I believe Dr. Instream is in a room that is not his own, a different room than he has been in any other time during our appointments. (Pause.) A long wall without windows is in it. Adjacent to this wall, a wall with a door. Opposite the long wall, a wall with several windows. The walls of a grayish color.